Michael Fazio
Software Architect at Thales
Perth, Western Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Fazio is a Software Architect based in Perth with 12 years' experience designing and delivering complex distributed systems across defence, aerospace, rail and autonomous vehicles. At Thales he progressed from engineer to technical lead and now architect, leading mission planning, C4SIR and naval combat system efforts that are operational within the Australian Defence Force. He combines deep systems thinking with hands-on backend engineering—evidenced by contributions to the Jormungandr privacy-voting blockchain node where he improved peer statistics, bootstrap reliability and network visibility. Michael brings practical experience integrating DDS, custom wireless mesh networks and OLSR for multi-robot communications, reflecting a strong background in real-time, resilient networking. He also runs a small venture, bringing product and delivery perspective to technical decisions. Colleagues value his ability to translate demanding operational requirements into auditable, deployable software architectures.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at Edith Cowan University
Github Skills (11)
api-rest10
rest-api10
rust10
networking10
api-design10
blockchain10
restful-api10
json9
nodejs8
performance-monitoring8
system-design7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
cardano-foundation/jormungandr
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
privacy voting blockchain node
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 19 PRs, 41 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael focused on enhancing the Jormungandr blockchain node's functionality and performance. Their contributions include adding peer-to-peer statistics to the node's output, addressing bootstrap issues related to trusted peers, and updating to a newer version of the poldercast library. They also added the node ID to the stats output and implemented peer connected count to provide more detailed network information.
blockchain
michaeljfazio/MIDs
Oct 2014 - Jun 2021
Maritime Identification Digits Mapping to Country Codes
Contributions:2 releases, 45 commits, 4 PRs in 6 years 9 months
mappingdigitscountry-codesmaritimeidentification
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